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chevyfried

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Hello everyone,

First time posting after a long time lurking. I have a Mac Pro 1,1 A1186 EMC 2113 That will not display video. I have 2 NVidia A386 256mb PCI-E dual dvi video cards, neither work.

I push the power button and the power button lights up solid white, the computer will chime and I can hear the hard drive making noises like it's working. I push the diagnostics button above the RAM sister boards and from what I can see, the all the way left one lights up amber and the 2 all the way on the right light up green.

The keyboard will toggle the caps lock, and it will eject the disk drive. I put in an old eMac disk and it spins up loud like it is botting to the disk, but still not video.

I reset the PRAM by doing the option, alt, p, r; it restarts and chimes again, but still no video.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you!!!
 
Apologies that is what it said on the box that matches the computer.

I sourced a 8800gt from ebay for $25. It worked a few times and now stopped giving me the video again. Any thoughts?
 
a PC GT 640 is worth a look as long as you are ruining OSX 10.8 or higher.
any Maxwell nvidia card will do relay, GT 640 is a good cheep option
 
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